Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets! More Tomihiro Kono

'DEJA VU' - HEAD PROP COLLECTIONS 2010

As as well as co-founder of artist unit Neon O’clock Works, Tomihiro Kono is also a recognized hair stylist in the fashion industry. Working with partner Sayaka Maruyama he extends his creative imagination in many art forms; and foremost are his collection of bespoke head props seen here in the video.

Taking inspiration from everything, Tomi has organically found materials to work with, stumbling upon bird feathers in the park, using vintage laces or spikes or leathers and metals. The result is an extraordinary collection of imaginings.

Performance

If you want to get ahead, get a hat. Or a plastic carrier bag. Or a lampshade.

Modern interpretations of early Netherlandish and Flemish portraiture by Hendrik Kerstens.

What if......

Exhibit at the WHAT IF... Exhibition in the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin in 2009
The Race, 2007 by Michael Burton.

"For every one human cell in your body there are ten nonhuman cells - bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes - living inside and on you. They are vital to many of your daily functions.  The Race responds to this outcome and human metagenomic research to reconsider our approach to healthcare as a co-evolved organism and conglomeration of vital bacteria, microbes and parasites. The project scrutinizes our inadvertent creation of superbugs like mRSA through the misuse of antibiotics to offer alternative enhancements, new behaviors and objects for a more symbiotic future as an extraordinary balanced ecosystem."

Tara Dancing

Photography by Michael Daks

Video by Indira Cesarine for XXXX Magazine

Music by the Dokteurs.  

 

Originally entitled ‘ Tara dances for World Peace’; an animation of photographs taken by Michael Daks for his two recent book projects - JUST GOOD FRIENDS, and IN HINDSIGHT. Starring the amazing FORD model, dancer, writer, and YOGA guru - Tara Stiles.

Animation edited by Indira Cesarine for the premier issue of XXXX Magazine.com.  Landscapes photographed at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, shortly after the US /UK led invasion of IRAQ, and in a post-9/11 New York City still reeling from the destruction of the towers.

How to create a larger eyelid -

This video is a graphic illustration of the bizarre beauty practice of gluing one's eyelids. The goal is to make Asian eyes look more Western. The glue adds a crease to a monolid, making it a double eyelid.  Mary, or Mulzanza on her blog, is a 21 year old Texan devoted to helping small creased and monolid Asian girls do their eye makeup.

The process of applying a thin layer of glue to one's eyelids takes up to 30 minutes.  Daily.

Gluing is not the only way to crease a monolid. Some alternatives suggested using medical tape or blepharoplasty, surgically creating a crease.  In Asia, blepharoplasty is rapidly becoming the most popular cosmetic surgery. Only nose or breast surgeries are more popular, according to Laura Miller, an associate professor of anthropology at Loyola University in Chicago.  However, doctors caution against habitual gluing. Side effects include eyelid drooping, itching, and other topical allergic reactions.